Introduction to Literature Review
This study combines factors that other studies have done that will influence the consumer's purchasing decision in online and offline stores for apparels. It includes the price attractiveness, time saving, perceived risk, enjoyment and excitement, tangibility and high interactivity.
Purchase Intention
According to Monsuwe, Delleart and Ruyter (2004), there are five external factors to understand consumer's intention to purchase in the internet which is the consumer personality, situational factors, product characteristics, previous online shopping experiences and the trust in online shopping.
Price attractiveness
In an online context, consumers are more likely to depend on the price cues to determine the quality of a product which are presented in the web site because they cannot see or touch the actual product (Jiang and Rosenbloom, 2005). The study of So, Wong and Sculli (2005) resulted that when there is the presence of promotional offers, consumers will have higher intention to purchase in web-shopping; purchasing decisions and choice making from alternative evaluations can be made easily when there is the presence of promotional offers.
Time saving
In online shopping, it requires less effort and better decision making for consumers who opt to purchase at the e-store (Jiang and Rosenbloom, 2005). Shoppers may save their time in e-shopping because they do not have to go through any effort on travelling to a mall or saving their time in other psychology factors such as traffic jam etc.
According to Monsuwe, Delleart and Ruyter (2004), the main drive of online shopping is that the internet is time saving and accessible 24 hours a day. Shopping in the internet saves time and effort because consumers are able to shop any time in the comfort of their home; especially for consumers who have little amount of free time because of extended working hours (Wolfinbarger and Gilly, 2001).